The Heritage of Vietnamese Theatre

After contemporary dance, the evening returns to the great traditions of Vietnamese theatre. Tuồng, chèo and cải lương answer one another like three memories, three aesthetics, three ways of making voice and gesture vibrate.

The chosen excerpts — the chèo clown in Lưu Bình-Dương Lễ, Sơn Hậu, and Cô đào hát — bring out humour, loyalty, sacrifice, love and dignity: traits that, beyond their forms, tell something of the Vietnamese soul.